Combined change-maker, cash-register, and indicator.



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COMBINED CHANGE MAKER, CASH REGISTER, AND INDICATOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

MIOIIAEL McANENr, OF DENVER, OOLOEADO, ASSIGNOR To BENJAMIN DAVIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ADMINISTRATOR OF GEORGE R. DAVIS,

DECEASED.

COMBINED CHANGE-MAKER, CASH-REGISTER, AND INDICATOR...

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 653,647, dated July 10, 1900; Application filed January 20, 1900. Serial No. 2,216. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL MOANENY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, have invented certainnew and useful lmprovementsin a Com bined Change-Maker, Cash-Register, and Indicator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a perspective view of my machine; Fig. 2, a view of a vertical longitudinal section on line a: on of Fig. 3; Fig.3, a View of a horizontal longitudinal section on line y y of Fig. 2 with some of the parts broken away for the purpose of showing the other parts below them; Fig. 4, a detail view showing a transverse section of the changeissuing mechanism, the section being on line .2 z of Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a bottom plan view of the same; Fig. 6, a detail view, on an enlarged scale, partly in section and partly in side ele-..

vation, showing the cut-out mechanism and its locking device, the parts being shown in position as when such mechanism is not in operation; Fig. 7, a similar View showing the parts in condition as when the cut-out mechanism has been operated and locked; Fig. 8, a detail view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of the key-locking mechanism, the parts being shown in position to permit the movement of any one of the keys; Fig. 9, a similar view of said mechanism, showing the position of the parts when one of the keys has been operated and the rest locked; Fig. 10, a detail view showing said locking mechanism in end elevation; Fig. 11, a detail view, on an enlarged scale, of said mechanism in crosssection, the unlocked and locked positions of the locking bar or device being shown in full and dotted lines, respectively; Fig. 12, a detail top plan view of the dollar ejecting mechanism, the auxiliary slide being shown in operative position and the parts in a position as when a coin has been ejected; Fig. 13, a like view of the extra five-cent-ejecting mechanism with the parts in similarposition Fig. 14, a detail view showing, partly in section and partly in elevation, the registering and indicating mechanisms; Fig. 15, asimilar view of said mechanisms with the parts in position as when a key has been moved through part of its throw to actuate the same; Fig. 16, a detail view, on an enlarged scale,

showing in top plan view the registering mech- 5 5 anism; Fig. 17, a detail view, on an enlarged scale, of said mechanism, partly in side elevation and partly in section; Fig. 18, a detail view showing, on an enlarged scale, partly in end elevation and partly in section, the regis- 6o ter and indicator operating devices; Fig. 19, asimilar view slfowing in elevation the double stop-ratchets on the register shafts and pawls that cooperate therewith, both pawls being shown in engagement; and Fig. 20, a

detail view, in side elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the register-shaft-driving ratchetwheel.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The object of my invention has been to provide a machine for use in stores, restaurants, and the like which shall be a combined changemaker, cash-register, and indicator capable of not only registering and indicating the amounts of different purchases made, but of at the same time issuing the proper change to be returned to the customer when the amount given by the latter at the time of any purchase is greater than that required to be paid for such purchase; and with this end in view my invention consists in the machine and in the parts thereof constructed, arranged, and combined as hereinafter specified.

The special purpose I have had in View in making my present invention has been to provide an improved construction of machine of the kind forming the subject-matter of my application for patent, Serial No. 7 30,9l4,filed September 18, 1899, and I therefore showherec right side plates of the casing of my machine, and A designates the upright front plate, extending across between side plates A A and having in it the opening A for the mouth of the change-delivering hopper, the opening A below A for the admission of the fingers of the hand placed to receive change from the hopper-mouth, and certain other openings for the passage of keys, to be hereinafter described. The casing has also extending across within it the base-plate A for the support and guidance of the operative parts of the machine, to be described, such base-plate being forwardly and upwardly inclined toward the front of the casing and the back plate A, which, extending across between such plates A A, covers the rear side of the machine.

The top of the casing consists of the top plate A inclined upward at a slight angle from a point near the front of the casing toward the rear of the latter, a door A a short upright part A, extending upward from a point just to the rear of the door A and provided on both sides with sight-openings A and A through which any raised indicatortablet can be seen, such openings being fitted each with a sheet of glass in the way usual in cash registers and indicators, and a flat part A, covering over the space between the two glazed openings A and A The door A which is for permitting access to examination of and resetting of the register mechanism to be hereinafter described, is shown as provided with a key-operated look A for locking the door shut; but it is to be understood that any other suitable locking means for securing the door to prevent unauthorized manipulation of the registering devices can be employed instead, as desired, without involving any departure from my present invention, which has nothing to do with the form of such locking device or the means for preventing or permitting access to the interior of the casing.

The casing of the machine made up as described is shown supported upon a base B, containing a moving drawer B of the usual construction, having receptacles b b for coins and compartments b b b for bills or banknotes. This drawer is not necessary to and has nothing to do with the operative mechanism or the operation of my machine and can be dispensed with or changed, as desired.

Extending across the front of the machine above the upper edge of the front plate A is the changetray 0, having the seven upwardly-extending half-tubes or semicylindrical receptables c and c to receive and hold the different stacks of coins from which change is to be issued by the machine. As shown, this tray, having its front edge resting upon the top of casing-plate A and the rear edge of its upper end resting upon the front part of the top plate A is tilted slightly rearward, so that its coin-receiving receptacles c c are inclined rearwardly a sufficient amount to insure the respective stacks of coins resting securely in them without danger of falling or being tilted forward during use of the machine. This tray on its bottom, near its .rear side,- has dowelpins c and c, that engage openings in the casing, and it is thereby locked against direct outward movement, and it can only be removed from the machine after its rear portion has first been tilted up to disengage the pins and openings. As shown, such tray has seven of the coin-holding receptacles or halftubes c (1, one of themthe one to the left of the seriesbeing large enough to receive dollar-coins, the next one being adapted to receive half-dollars, and the next quarter-dollars. The two succeeding tubes or receptacles to the right of the quarter-dollar one are adapted to receive nickels or five-cent pieces, while the remaining two on the right of the series are adapted to receive and hold ten-cent pieces. At the lower ends of the half-tubes or coin-stack receptacles there are round openings 0* r; through the base-plate of the tray, each opening being of such size as to just admit the downward passage of a coin from the respective stack in the half tube or receptacle above. Below each of the openings there is a coinsupport to keep the lower coin in the stack above from dropping straight downward, such support standing at a distance below the lowerend of the respective opening 0* equal to or slightly greater than the thickness of one of the coins in the respective stacks, so that while such support acts to sustain the stack of coins it will admit of the lowest coin in such stack being pushed forward off of the support by a device to be described. These coin-supports are formed of a series of plates 0 0, attached by screws 0 c to the baseplate of the tray 0, so as to leave narrow spaces 0 0 between them, each of such spaces being in line with a point below the center of one of the coin-openings (i as shown best in Figs. 4 and 5. The front or outer edges of these plates are curved, so that their portions which project under the respective coinopenings present only crescent-shaped bear ings for the coins to rest upon, so that only a short sliding movement is necessary to carry the respective coins off of their supports and cause them to fall down within the easing into the hopper 13*, which, extending across below the change-tray within the front of the casing, has its-opposite sides inclined inward toward each other and the downwardly and forwardly inclined coin-delivering mouth or chuteifi extending outward through the opening A in the front plate A of the casing. As shown, (see Figs. 4 and 5,) the plates 0' O are secured to a portion of the base-plate of the change-tray, which extends down below the planes of the bottom of the coin-openings 0 0 such portion of the base-plate being provided with grooves 0 each corresponding in size with and being situated direotly over one of the spaces 0 a" between plates 0' O.

The front side of the change-tray O is preferably, though not necessarily, closed with a sheet of glass 0 through which the stacks of coins can be observed to see if they need replenishing at any time.

For feeding out the bottom coins from the several stacks in the change-tray I provide means which in their coin-engaging devices are like those set forth in my United States Patents Nos. 620,954 and 621,124 in that they consist of coin-engaging dogs pivoted upon reciprocating actuating-slides, so that their forward or outer ends can swing upward into coin engaging position and having springs to hold such ends normally raised and means for limiting their upward swing, so that they can only stand high enough to engage and push out the bottom coins of the respective stacks. The device for feeding out a nickel or five-cent coin from that one of the five-cent-coin tubes which is next to the twenty-five-cent tube is made just like the feeding device shown in my said patents in that it consists of a coin-dog D,whose front end is adapted to engage the rear side of the lowest coin in the stack, while its rear end is pivotally connected with the depressed part D of the actuating-slide D by a screw d, having its head situated in a recess d in the dog and its shank extending down through an opening in the bottom of the recess, which is made slightly larger than such shank in order to allow swing of the dog up and down and tapped into the depressed part of the slide. The upward swing of the dog is limited by. the screw (1 on the dog passing through an opening in the slide and having its head adapted to engage the under side of such slide when the dog has been swung upward to the limit of its movement. A spring d surrounding screw d and extending from the slide D up into a recess 61 in the dog, serves to hold the dog normally raised as far as the stop-screw 01 will let it go.

The coin engaging and feeding devices for the other coin tubes or receptacles differ from the one just described onlyin that the means for limiting the upward swing of each of the dogs is not merely a screw with its head below the respective actuating-slide, butis one with a stop-shoulder d to engage the slide, and which below that shoulder has a head 61 provided with a vertical slot d for a purpose to be described. The dog-carrying slides having as in the case of the similar slides shown and described in my said other patents, the shoulders 01 d at the rear ends of their depressed parts to form abutments for the rear ends of the coin-feeding dogs when the latter are in operation and are being caused to feed out coins by the movement of their respective slides are guided in ways a a in the base-plate A, the rear ends of the slides being held down in such ways, while left free to reciprocate therein, by the cross-plate a, secured to the base-plate so as to extend across the same and overlap a portion of the slides seatedin' ways a a, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, 6, and 7. The coin-feeding dogs being adapted to pass through the grooves c c and the spaces 0 0 between plates 0 O are of such thickness only that they can be swung down against the stress of their raisingsprings, so that their upper sides will stand below the upper faces of plates 0 C, forming the coin-stack supports. With this construction all of the dogs when they have slid forward to feed out the respective coins and are returning cannot be hindered materially in their return by the engagement of the bottom coins of the stack, for under pressure of such coins the dogs yield,,so that allthe weight of the coin-stacks is supported by the plates G O, and the dogs can ride easily back under such stacks with only such friction against the coins as is due to the light upward stress of their springs.

By a downward pull on the slotted extension d connected with the other dogs except the one for feeding coins from what I call the extra five-cent coin tube or receptacle that is, the one nearest the twenty-five-cent tube or receptaclesuch other dogs can be swung down before they are carried forward by their respective slides, so that their noses or coin-engaging ends will be below the lowest coins in the respective coin engaging slides, and consequently will not feed out any coins as the slides are moved forward. The purpose of this arrangement and construction will be described.

The extra five-cent slide for causing coins to be fed from the extra five-cent tube or receptacle has near its forward dog-carrying end a shoulder (1 adapted to be engaged by the lug d on the supplemental slide D reciprocating beside the extra five-cent slide in a suitable way in base-plate A. The rear end of supplemental slide D is, like the corresponding end of slides D D guided under cross-plate a. To provide for holding its front end normally raised to lift its lug 01 above the plane of the shoulder 61 on the extra five-cent slide, so that the supplemental slide can reciprocate without actuating the latter and at will letting the lug end of the supplemental slide down behind shoulder 02 so that forward sliding of the supplemental slide will cause a coin-feeding movement of the extra five-cent slide, I pivot in bearings e e on the under side of the baseplate A a rock-shaft E, having an arm E, extending up through an opening in the baseplate under the forward portion of the supplemental slide. A coiled spring 6, attached at one end to this rock-shaft and having its other end fixed, serves to keep the shaft normally turned to raise its arm E up under the supplemental slide, so as to support the forward lug-carrying end of the latter above the plane of the top of shoulder d On its other end the rock-shaft has a crank-arm E by which it may be rotated against the stress of its spring 6 to depress the arm E and allow the supplemental slide to drop into position to carry its lug (1 down behind shoulder at", to cause the supplemental slide and extra five-cent slide to travel forward together as the supplemental slide is reciprocated toward the front of the machine. The means for moving the crank-arm E to so rotate the rockshaftE will be described hereinafter. Guided beside the dollar-feeding slide is another reciprocating slide D for actuating the former very much as the extra five-cent slide is actuated by its supplemental slide above described. This second-supplemental slide, being guided in a suitable way in the baseplate and "having its rearward end guided under and held down by the crossplate a, has its front end free to be raised and lowered, provided with a side lug d, adapted to engage a shoulder d on the dollar-slide when the slide end carrying it is down in the same plane with the dollar-slide, but to travel back and forth above such shoulder when the supplemental-slide end carrying thelug is raised. In Fig. 3 both supplemental slides are shown in the positions which they take when they have been slid forward with their forward ends raised to carry their lugs above the shoulders on the adjoining coin-feeding slides.

To keep the dollar-slide-actuating supplemental slide D with its lug-carrying forward end normally raised to clear its lug from shoulder (W, I provide the lever F, pivoted in cars ff on the under side of the base-plate A and having the upwardly-extending arm F, projecting up through a hole in the baseplate, so as to engage and support with its upper end the forward end of the supplemental slide. This lever is normally held swung to raise its arm F, so as to elevate the forward end of the supplemental slide D enough to keep its lug d above shoulder d, by the action of spring f, similar to the spring 0. The outer and lower end of this'part of the lever is also provided with the weight piece or head F which can be readily engaged and raised by the fingers inserted through the opening A in the front plate A of the casing as the hand is placed to receive coins in change from the mouth of hopper C. It will be understood that this raising of piece or head F causes arm I to be lowered, so that the lug-carrying end of supplemental slide D will descend to cause its lug d to engage the shoulder d 011 the dollarslide and make the latter slide travel forward with the supplemental slide and cause a dollar-coin to be fed from the dollar-stack as the latter slide is reciprocated toward the front of the machine.

Journaled in suitable bearings in the upright side frame-plates H H, secured to the opposite sides of the casing, is a rock-shaft I, extending across above the series of coin-delivering and supplemental slides. Such shaft is connected with each of the supplemental slides D l) by an arm I, extending downward from the shaft and having its lower end engaging an opening in the slide, so that as the rock-shaft I is rocked forward and back on its axis each supplemental slide will be reciprocated toward and from the front of the machine. The shaft I has also an upwardlyextending arm 1 connected with spring 1 the other end of which is secured to a support on the casing, forward of arm 1 so that the stress of the spring will always draw forward on arm I to rock the shaft I and keep the arms I forced rearward to hold the supplemental slides normally retracted. This rockshaft 1 is also connected with all of the other slides D D so as to be rocked to move the supplemental slides forward each time that one of the other slides is reciprocated toward the front of the machine and to retract such reciprocated slide when it has been released and left free to be moved rearward again. The connection of shaft I with each of the slides D D consists of a downwardly-extending arm I on the shaft for each slide and a slot i in each slide, of such length that the rear end only engages the lower end of the respective rock-shaft arm I. lVith this construction as anyslide D is moved forward to feed a coin from the change-tray the engagement of the rear end of the slot of such slide with therear side of the respective arm I" on the rock-shaft I will rock said shaft against the stress of its spring I" to carry all of its arms I 1 forward, moving the supplemental slides D D, but leaving the other slides D D besides the one just described as being moved, at rest in their normal retracted positions, the arms I l for such slides passing idly forward in the slots 2' of the latter. \Vhen the moved slide D has been released by the power moving it, the spring I by rapidly rocking the shaft I back again causes the said slide to be quickly retracted because of the engagement of the arm on the rockshaft with the end of slot t" on the slide. Also journaled in suitable bearings in the side frame-plates H H are the transverse par allel rock-shafts K K, nineteen in number, the series of such shafts beginning just forward of rock-shaft I and runningforward to a point just to the rear of the coin or change tray 0. Each of these shafts K has an upwardly and rearwardl y extending lever'arm K, whose upper rear end is connected with a key K formed of a rod extending up through a suitable hole in the top plate A of the casing and bearing on its upper end at some distance above such plate a finger-piece K having a flat table to be engaged by the finger to press the key down, and a portion k, inclined forward and downward from the table to receive the number or marking for the respective key. As shown, each key-rod is connected with its lever-arm K by a reduced portion of the rod passing through an opening in the lever-arm and having below the latter a pin which, together with the shoulder on the rod at the upper end of the reduced portion, causes the key and leverarm to move up and down together.

Nineteen of the fin ger-pieces K are marked on their inclined front portions with figures to correspond with different multiples of five cents, from five to ninety-five, inclusive, and the remaining finger-piece is marked to indicate one dollar. Though there are but nineteen shafts there are twenty keys, and the extra key, which is the dollar-key, is connected with a hollow shaft or sleeve K mounted on the shaft K next the coin-tray, so that either can turn independently of the other.

In order that upon the pressing of any key marked to correspond with the amount of any single purchase less than one dollar the proper change may be issued by the machine for return to the customer when the amount given by the customer is greater than that required for the purchase and that the pressure of the dollar-key may cause a dollar to be fed out from the dollar coin-stack into the hopper, I connect the rock-shafts K K directly with the coin-feed-actuating slides D D hereinbefore described, except the extra five-cent slide, as follows: The form of connection between a shaft and slide is in each case the same, consisting of a rigid downwardly-extending arm K adapted at its lower end to engage the front wall of a slot d in the respective slide when the latter is in its normal retracted position. With this construction the forward swing of the arm, such as would be caused by pressing down on the key-piece K which is connected with the rock-shaft K, carrying the arm, will cause the slide to be moved forward to compel the feeding of a coin from the respective half tube or receptacle of the change-tray; but because of the length of the slot (Z the arm will not interfere with or prevent such forward movement of the said slide when the latter is actuated by other means than that particular arm just described. Each rockshaft-K K is indirectly connected with the two supplemental slides D D through the retracting rock-shaft I, having the arms I I, engaging the openings 1' t in such slides, as hereinbefore described, and the arms I I engaging the rear sides of the slots Z t" on the slides D D, and the arms K K on the rock-shafts K K, engaging the front walls of the slots CZ d on the latter slides, the construction being such that as any key is depressed to rock its rock-shaft K to move forward any slide D the two supplemental dollar and extra five-cent slide actuating slides D D will always be moved forward, too, being subsequently retracted with any moved slide by the return movement of the slideretractorrock-shaftl under stress of spring 1 Without giving a detailed description of the connections between the respective keys and slides, it is enough to say that the connections are such that upon the pressure of any key marked with the amount of a purchase the machine can be made to issue, as change to be returned to a customer, coins to the amount of the difference between the purchase and one dollar, the machine being arranged to normally issue different amounts of change required where the purchases are under a dollar in value and a dollar is paid in.

In order that the machine may be adapted quickly and readily to give the proper change Where the amount paid in by the customer exceeds the amount of his purchase, but is two dollars, fifty cents, or twenty-five cents, instead of one dollar, I have provided certain devices for regulatingat will the amount of change issued to suit the amount of the payment made. iVhere two dollars are paid in and the purchase is any amount less than a dollar, the issue of the proper change is secured by pressing upon the head F of lever F, hereinbefore described, so as to lower the arm F and let the supplemental slide D drop to bring its lug (Z into engagement with the shoulder (Z on the dollar-slide D The actuation of the key K marked with the amount of the purchase will then cause the dollarslide to be actuated to issue a dollar-coin in addition to such coins as are issued, in the manner hereinbefore described, by the actuation of the other coin-slides caused by the engagement of the arms'on the rock-shaft, which is connected with the key, with the shoulders on said slides, and change will be delivered by the hopper for the payment on a two-dollar basis.

In order to provide for the making and is suing of the proper change for various payments on a fifty-cent or a twenty-five-cent basis and for the registration of any payments without the issuing of any coin 'in change whenever such payments are exactly equal to the amounts of the respective purchases, I provide the following described mechanism connected with the pivoted feed ing-dogs on the slides D D except the extra five-cent slide hereinbefore described: A rock-shaft L, extending across within the forward part of the casing and journaled in suitable bearings Z Z on the under side of base-plate A just to the rear of the series of slotted heads d d6 on the stop-screws (1 d connected with the pivoted spring-raised coinfeeding pawls or dogs D'D, carried by all of the slides D D except the extra five-cent slide, has attached to it the series of for wardly extending arms Z Z Z, extending through the slots (Z d d in the heads d (Z (Z on the screws connected with the two tencent and the regular five-cent feeding-dogs It has also a similar rigid arm Z projecting through the slot d in the head d connected with the dollar-feeding dog. The shaft L also has a rigid downwardly-extending arm Z by which it can be rocked, as desired, to lower and raise arms Z Z Z Z to cause the lat ter to draw down the two ten-cent, five-cent, and dollar dogs and let the latter rise again to their normal raised positions, in which they are supported by their respective springs d 0Z The construction is such that as the shaft is rocked to depress its arms Z Z Z Z the latter will, by their engagement with the lower ends of the slots d d in the respective heads d d, draw the coin-issuing dogs D D, connected with such heads, down to carry and hold their coin-engaging noses or ends below the plane of the bottom coins in the respective stacks of coins in the change-tray,

so that as the slides D D carrying said dogs,

are reciprocated no coins will be fed out by their dogs. The shaft L, with its arms Z Z Z Z engaging the slotted heads connected with the two ten-cent, the five-cent, and the dollar feeding-dogs, forms a simple and efficient cut-out to cut the said dogs out of operation at any time asdesired. A spring L, pressing at one end against an arm Z on the shaft, serves to hold the shaft normally with its arms Z Z Z Z raised to allow the coin-feeding dogs of the two ten-cent, five-cent, and dollar slides to stand up in their coin engaging and feed position.

To provide for rocking shaft L against the stress of spring L, I use the cut-out key L consisting of a rod extending in through the front plate of the casing and bearing on its front or outer end a finger-piece Z", while within the casing its red or shank is pivotally connected to the lower end of arm Z by a pivot-pin Z so that while the key-rod and arm move together as the rod is reciprocated longitudinally the rod can be swung up and down on the arm as a fulcrum without moving such arm. To the rear of arm Z the rod of this cut-out key is bent upward and then rearward, so that its rear raised portion is in position to engage the under side of the crank-arm E on the rock-shaft E, hercinbefore described, which has the arm E for normally raising the supplemental slide D for actuating the extra five-cent slide out of position to actuate the latter. The spring a for holding the rock-shaft E in its normal position, with its arm E raised and its crankarm E depressed, is strong enough to keep the rear or inner end of the rod or shank of the cut-out key L normally depressed to raise the outer or front end of the key, as shown in Fig. 6; The finger-piece Z has the horizontal outwardly'extending lower portion to be engaged by the linger to depress said piece and raise the rear end of the key, as shown in Fig. 7, so as to raise the crank-arm E and depress the arm E to let the supplemental slide D drop into position to actuate the extra five-cent slide. A rearward swing of the arm Z of rock-shaft L, caused by pushing inward the cut-out key L will, through the connections between such shaft. and the dollar, five-cent, and two ten-cent dogs, already described, and the connections between the shaft and the fifty-cent and twenty-five-eent dogs, to be described, depress all of such dogs, so that no change will be fed out by the change mechanism no matter what one of the changemaker actuating-keys K may be operated. A sleeve M, journaled so as to rotate easily on the shaftL, has an arm in extending downward and then horizontally outward toward the side of the machine, its outer end passing just to the rear of and in contact with the arm Z and a horizontal forwardly-extending arm m, which passes through the slot (Z in the head d on the screw (Z connected with the twenty-five-cent feeding-dog D, just as and for the same purpose as the arms Z Z on the rock-shaft engage the slots in the heads of screws connected with the ten-cent, five-cent, and dollar feeding-dogs, as hereinbefore described. A cut-out key M for rocking the sleeve is pivotally connected at its inner end with a short arm on the horizontal part of arm m and at its outer front end, beyond the easing front plate, carries a suitable push-plate or finger-piece m Another sleeve N is rotativelyjournaled on shaft L, between sleeve M and the arm Z on such shaft, and has the downwardly-extending arm a passing down behind and in contact with the rear side of the horizontal part of arm m on sleeve M and the forwardly extending arm a passing through the slot [Z7 in the head CZ of the screw d which is connected with the fifty-cent coin feeding-dog. A push-key N for sleeve N has its inner end pivotally connected with the arm n and, extending forward from the latter through the front casing-plate, has on its front end a suitable push-head or fingerpiece, as shown. a The sleeves M and N are turned reversely to the direction of their motion by their puslrkeys and so as normally to be held in position to leave the fifty and twenty-five cent coin feeding-dogs in operative position by means similar to such as is employed in the case of the shaft L of said sleeves, having, respectively, arms m and of, against which bear springs M and N respectively.

The operation of key L when rocked upon its pivotal connection with the arm Z of rockshaft L has already been described fully. l/Vhen so rocked to carry its rear end upward, it through the described connections causes the supplemental slide for actuating the extra live-cent slide to go into operation to cause a five-cent piece to be fed out of the extra tive'cent tube or receptacle. /Vhen pushed longitudinally inward, it acts directly as a cut-out key, causing all of the coin-feeding dogs which are on the slides D D except that on the extra five-cent slide, which is normally not moved with any of the other slides, to be swung and held down out of operative position, so that no coins can be fed out by them from the change-tray. This it does because by moving the arm Z rearward it rocks the rock-shaft L to depress its coin-feedingdog-depressing arms Z Z Z Z to draw the dogs of the two ten-cent, the regular live-cent, and. the dollar slides down. This movement of arm Z also moves the arm in rearward to rock sleeve M and depress its arm m to draw down the twenty-tive-cent feeding-dog and through the engagement of said arm on with the arm n on sleeve N also rocks the latter to depress its arm n to lower the fifty-cent feeding-dog. The pressure of any key K marked with the figure corresponding with the amount of any purchase will now cause the issue of no coins or change from the change-tray, but will only cause registration and indication of the amount of the purchase made by mechanisms to be described actuated by keys K K The cut-out key L is therefore pushed in, as described, only when the money paid in by a customer is equal to the amount of his purchase, and consequently no change is to be returned to him. When the amount paid in is only fifty cents and the purchase is less, the cut-out key 1. is pushed in, so as to rock the sleeve N and cause the fifty-cent feeding-dog to be drawn down out of operative position. The operation of any key K representing the amount of a purchase less than fifty cents will then cause the proper one or ones of the series of slides D D which are to cause coins to be fed from the stack of coins below fifty cents, to be moved to feed out the required change. WVhen the amount of purchase by a customer is less than twenty-five cents and he pays in twenty-five cents, the cut-out key M is pushed in, and because of the engagement of the arm m with the arm n on sleeve N causes both sleeves M and N to be rocked to draw both the fifty-cent and the twentyfiVe-cent feeding-dogs down out of operative position; WVhen one of the keys K marked to correspond with the amount of a purchase less than twenty-five cents is then pressed, the proper one or combination of ten and the five cent slides D D will be actuated to push from the change-tray into the change-hopper the necessary coin or coins to make up the diiference between the amount of the purchase and the twenty-five cents paid in by the customer.

To render it unnecessary for the operator to hold the cut-out keys after they have been pressed inward, I employ means for automatically locking them as soon as they have been moved inward and for automatically releasing them to permit their return to normal or inactive position when the occasion for their use ends. As shown in the drawings, the locking device is in the form of a swinging frame composed of two vertical end bars 0 and O, that are pivoted to a shaft 0, supported in bearings on the under side of the base-plate A and two parallel upper and lower horizontal cross bars or plates 0 and O ,extendingbetween such end bars,the lower one having an upwardly and forwardly inclined flange or lip 0, adapted to engage the under side of the extremities of the arms Z m and n when the shaft or sleeves carrying them are rocked, as hereinbefore described, to depress the arms Z, 1%, and 11, said arms Z m and n being raised when the arms Z, on, and n are depressed. A coiled spring 0 on the shaft 0 with one end suitably fastened and the other bearing against the lockingframe normally holds the latter with its armengaging flange or lip in the path of the free ends of the'arms Z m and n and the latter on rising by the rocking of the shaft engage the inclined side of the flange or lip, and so press the same rearward until said ends pass above the flange or lip, and the latter by the action of the spring 0 is swung beneath such arm ends, and thus locks the cut-out keys in their operative position. For releasing the cut-out keys there is a pin or stud (1 projecting from the under side of the supplemental dollar-slide D in position to engage the upper cross-bar O of the locking-frame when the slide is moved forward, and thereby to rock or trip the same, and thus free the arms Z m and n permitting the springs L, M and N to act on their respective arms and move them. When besides being moved inward to operate all of the cut-outs the key L is swung to permit five cents to be given in change, said key is locked in its swung position by having its inner end engaged by a spring-actuated latch or dog P, secured to the bottom of the base-plate A. When the locking-frame is swung by the action of the stud or pin d on the slide D and causes the release of the arms Z m and 11 the key L is also released from the latch P, the inner end of the key being moved forward off the latch by the forward swinging of the rockshaft arm Z to which the key is connected. To counterbalance the weight of the arms K on the rock-shafts K and the keys K connected with such arms, I provide each shaft K with a thin straight spring-wire which, extending upward from the shaft, projects into one of the cuts 7.: k in the horizontal flange 73: on the plate K, adjustably secured to one of the side plates of the casing by screws k W, passing through slot-s 7a is in the plate. The cuts k k are L-shaped in form, each being carried inward and then rearward and its spring being placed in the rearwardly extending part thereof. The springs can be very readily placed in and removed from engagement with the cuts when necessary and yet are securely held against accidental dis engagement. The support to which the front end of spring I for actuating the retracting rock-shaft I is secured is the plate K or a pin thereon. This arrangement enables me to adjust the stress of the said spring upon the arm I of the shaft I by moving the said plate forward or back on its adjustable connections with the casing side plate.

To provide for the registration and indication of amounts of the different purchases, while the machine automatically issues the proper amounts of change when the payments exceed the purchases in value, so that the registration and indication of the amount of any purchase and the issue of change equal to the difference between the value of such purchase and the amount of the payment therefor made by the customer will all be caused to take place by the movement of a single one of the keys K the one marked to correspond with the amount of the purchase, I connect each key K with registering and indicating devices, as hereinafter described. Each rock-shaft K which is connected, as hereinbefore described, with one of the keys K so that depress-ion of the key will cause the shaft to rock backward on its bearings, has an arm K extending up from its upper side, and each of such arms is pivotally connected with the front end of a reciprocating rod Q, the arms K K being so arranged on the different rock-shafts as to be out of line with each other, so that the rods connected therewith can extend directly toward the rear of the machine, lying in a series parallel with each other, as shown best in Fig. 3. On the rear end of each rod I secure a head Q for engaging and actuating the registering and indicating devices, such head being supported so as to slide easily thereon on the transverse cross-bar Q extending between the side plates H H of a frame H that rests upon and is attached by screws to a bracket A that rises from the base of the machinecase. These heads having straight parallel sides are placed close together, as shown, the series of twenty heads being divided up into five series of four each, these smaller series being separated from each other by vertical fingers h h on a plate H fastened to the base of frame H to provide narrow spaces (see Fig. 3) to accommodate four arms R R, fixed on the rock-shaft R, journaled above heads Q Q in suitable hearings in the side frameplates H H and carrying also the two outer arms R R, just beyond the opposite ends of the whole series of heads Q Q. 011 its un der side each head has a shoulder q to strike the supporting-bar Q and limit the forward movement of the head and attached rod Q. The rock-shaft R, which is for actuating the registering mechanism to different extents as different heads Q Q are forced rearward by the ope 'ation of the respective keys K K connected with them, has fixed to it a swinging segment R provided with rack-teeth meshing with and driving pinion R", journaled so as to rotate freely on the shaft R which itself is journaled in suitable hearings on the side frame-plates H H. Encircling the shaft R is a helically-coiled spring B, one end of which is attached to the pinion R and its other end is secured to a collar R through which the shaft passes,'and supported by an arm or bracket R fastened to the adjacent frame-plate H. The revolution of the pinion by the rack R winds or increases the tension of the spring B, so that the latter will operate to turn .the pinion in the reverse direction when it is free to move by reason of the segments being permitted to swing in the opposite direction from that in which it is moved by the operation of the keys I? 1' To enable the tension of the spring R to be adjusted, the connection between the collar R and its supporting-arm R consists of a clamp formed of a radially split or divided ring-shaped part 1- on the arm R which encircles the collar R and a screw r, which. connects ears or lugs r and r respectively, on opposite sides of the split or division on the ring-shaped part r. \Vhenever it is desired to change the tension of the spring R", it is necessary merely to loosen the clamp, turn the collar in the desired direction according as the tension of the spring is to be increased or diminished, and then tighten the clamp to hold the collar from rotation. Secured to the hub of the pinion B so as to partake of its motion is an arm R", pivoted to the outer end of which isa spring-pressed pawl 1' that engages the teeth of a ratchetwheel R fixed on the shaft R, to cause said wheel and shaft to turn with the pinion when the latter is revolved by the action of the spring R Attached to the shaft are the two oppositelyturned ratchet-wheels R R, having twenty teeth, those on one wheel having their abrupt sides facing in the direction opposite to that in which the shaft will be turned by the engagement of the pawl r with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel R as the pinion R" is rotated back by the spring device described. A spring-pressed pawl r, pivoted on one of the plates 11, engages this ratchetwheel R so as to prevent any rotation of the shaft R in a direction opposite to the arrow in Fig. 18that is, the direction opposite to that in which pawl 9- would rotate the shaft by its engagement with ratchetwheel R Another pawl R which 1 term my brake or stop pawl, engages the teeth of the other ratchet-wheel R fixed on shaft R to stop the rotation of the shaft under the influence of the engagement of the pawl r on the arm of the spring-rotated pinion B when the pinion and the segment-rack have been rotated back to their startingpoints or to the positions which they normally occupy when a key K of the machine is not operated. This pawl R has its shank sliding in a longitudinal socket R in an arm R secured to the rock-shaft R, which carries the segment-rack, and is pressed outward with reference to such arm by the spring R its outward movement under stress of the spring being limited by a pin R" on its shank engaging a slot B in the arm R The rocking of the shaft R swings this pawl R out of engagement with its ratchet-wheel R as the shaft is turned to carry the segment forward to rotate the pinion R on the shaft and into the path of a tooth on wheel R just as the rack completes its throw in the opposite direction, so that the ratchet-wheel R and consequently the shaft R, will he suddenly brought to rest without any danger of overthrow due to momentum of the parts under the influence of the spring-rotating pinion R. As the pawl end is struck by one of the teeth on the ratchet-wheel R the pawl yields slightly against the stress of its spring B,

so that there is no sudden or violent jar, and the action of the said spring then, when the ICO parts have been brought to rest, pushes the pawl outward to its normal position, rotating the ratchet-wheel R and shaft It slightly backward. During the time of the disengagement of the brake-pawl from its ratchetwheel R and until the pawl r has been moved by the rack R to the point necessary for proper registration on the operation of a given key K it is essential to lock the register-shaft R from rotation; otherwise on the partial depression of a key K and consequent partial swing of the rack R in the direction to wind the spring R the latter would be free to revolve the pinion in the direction to cause rotation of the register-shaft, and thus result in registration of only a part of the amount represented by the key so partially depressed. For this purpose a pawl R is employed that is actuated from the rock-shaft I, so as to be thrown into engagement with the ratchet-wheel before the brakepawl is released therefrom when said shaft is rocked by the depression of a key K and thrown out of engagement with the wheel on the completion of the return rotation of the rock-shaft I. As means are employed, which are hereinafter described, to compel the full movement of the rock-shaft I by the depression of a key K it will be seen that it will therefore be impossible to operate the register by only a partial depression of a key K The connection between rock-shaft I and pawl It consists of a vertical rod R, that is pivotally attached at its lower end to a crankarm i on the shaft I and at its upper end passes through an opening in an arm of the pawl and having below the arm a nut r and above it a spring 7*, that yieldingly presses the pawl-arm against the nut r", the spring being held upon the rod by a tension-nut a. When a key is depressed and the shaft I rocked, the rod R will be drawn downward and promptly swing the pawl B into engagement with the wheel R By reason of the spring r the turning of the shaft can continue in spite of the stoppage of the pawl by its engagement with the ratchet-wheel R the spring being compressed against the pawlarm by the continued descent of the rod, and it is during such continued movement of shaft and rod that the stop-pawl R is disengaged from its ratchet-wheel R. The necessity for the described continued turning of shaft I and descent of rod R exists because of the connections between such shaft and the pawlswinging shaft R, which requires that the turning of the shaft I be continued until the limit of rotation of the rock-shaft R is reached. The key K being released, the shaft I is moved in the reverse direction by the action of the spring I and lifts the rod R causing by the rengagement of the nut r with the pawl the disengagement of the latter'from its ratchet-wheel R in time to free the shaft r for revolution by the action of the spring R on the pinion R the stop-pawl or brake B being returned to ratchet-tooth-engaging position, as above described.

Secured to and rotating with shaft R is the register-wheel S, having its periphery graduated into twenty equal parts by suitable graduation lines numbered from 0 to 95, inclusive, the numbers increasing each time by five. An index-pointer S, situated on a portion of the supplemental frame S secured to the adjoining side frame-plate H,

acts in conjunction with the graduations on wheel S, being so situated that as the pawl r rotates the ratchet-wheel R and consequently the shaft R through the distance of one tooth on such ratchet wheel the wheel S will be turned to cause a graduation-mark thereon to move away from the index-pointer and a new mark to be brought up to the latter. The rotation of ratchet-wheel B through the distance of twenty teeth will then cause a full rotation of the register-wheel. The figures 011 the register-wheel from 5 to 95, inclusive, are intended to represent the different multiples of five cents in a dollar, so as to correspond with the markings on the keys K K except the dollar-key. Attached to the shaft R is also the gear-wheel S meshing with an equal-sized gear-wheel S secured on the worm-shaft S journaled in the supplemental frame S and carrying the worm S meshing with and drivingthe worm-wheel S fixed on the vertical shaft S Secured on this shaft is a disk S to register dollars, its rim being divided into one hundred equal parts by suitable graduation-marks,and to cooperate with the marks on such disk is an in deX-pointer S To register hundreds of do1 lars up to nine, 1 provide another disk S, that is geared to the disk S so that on each complete turn of the latter a hundred so registered is transferred to such disk S. The rim of the disk S' is divided into ten equal parts by graduations numbered from O to 9, inclusive, and an index-pointer S fixed to disk S is provided to act in conjunction with such numerals.

In order that whenever a key K is operated to cause a registration, whether with or without the issuing of change by the machine, in the manner hereinbefore described, there will be displayed an indicator corresponding with the key moved, so that it can be seen' whether or not the proper key has been moved by the operator, I provide the following indicator mechanism, having a separate indicator for each key carrying a tablet marked to correspond with the marking of the respective key-that is, with a figure or figures to agree with the amount of a purchase to be registered by said key.

J ournaled loosely upon the transverse shaft T, supported by frame-plates H H, are the elbow-levers T T, one for each head Q, having their pivotal openings engaging the shaft T at their angles and each having a downwardly-extending arm in the path of one of the heads Q and a rearwardly-extendin g arm lib connected with a vertical indicator-rod T so that the rod and arm will move together as the lever is swung on the pivot-shaft T. For this purpose the rod can have a shouldert resting on the upper side of the lever-arm and a reduced portion 15 extending down through a hole {2 in such arm, with a pin passing through such reduced portion just under the arm, as shown in Fig. 2. The indicator-rods are of such length that as the heads Q Q cor responding to the separate rods are moved and in their normal forward positions and the downwardly-extending arms of the levers T T are resting against the rear ends of the respective heads Q Q the indicator-tablets T '1" stand down below the display-opening A in the raised part of the casing; but as any head Q is moved rearward to cause a registration and swings the engaged arm of the respective elbow-lever T backward to raise the other arm of such lever and the indicator-rod connected therewith the tablet on such rod will be elevated to a position opposite the display-opening, so that the purchase-indicating figure or figures on it can be seen through such opening. For retaining each rod s0 raised in its elevated indicating position until another key K is operated to cause a new registration, I provide the swingingrod-retainingwing'l, pivotallysupported at its opposite ends in the plates H H and extending across within the machine below the elbow-levers T T. Such wing extending rearward from its pivotal portion is provided with a weighted arm T, adapted to hold the wing normally swung up into the path of the down wardly-extending arms of the levers T T as such arms are swung rearward to cause the levers to raise the indicator-rods connected with them. As any lever T is swung by its respective head Q to carry its downwardlyextending arm rearward the end of such arm riding over the upper face of wing T presses the latter downward until the end of the arm passes 01f of the rear edge of the wing. The weighted arm T then swings the wing quickly upward to cause its edge to stand in front of the lever-arm (see Fig. 2) and hold the latter in its retracted position, so that the other arm of the lever and the tablet-carrying indicatorrod connected therewith will be maintained in their elevated position, to which they have been moved by the swing of the elbow-lever. The rearward and upward swing of another lever T as its respective head Q is moved by the operation of another key K to cause a new registration and operation of the machine will then, by the engagement of the downwardly-extending arm of such lever, press the Wing down again to disengage its edge from the arm of the previously-moved elbow-lever, so that such lever will by the weight of the indicator-rod and tablet connected with it be quickly swung downward and forward again to cause the tablet on its rod to be dropped out of sight below the sight or display opening in the casing. As the movement of the elbowlever being actuated is continued its wing engaging arm finally passes off of the wing edge, and the wing swings quickly up again to cause its edge to block the return swing of such engaging arm, and the newly-raised indicator-tablet is kept up in its elevated. indi cating position to show what key has been operated, so that the observer can at once see whether the machine has been operated to register his purchase correctly.

For the purpose of insuring the movement of the rack R" in a direction to wind the register-operating spring R to the point necessary to cause the proper operation of the latfor before the display of the indicator-tablet T, I provide means w iereby each head Q Q causes the completion of such movement of the rack before the indicator-tablet is displayed. Such means consists of the sliding block Q and a coiled spring Q", placed in a chamber or cavity Q in the head Q, the spring being interposed between the block and the forward end of the head and yieldinglyholding the block at the real-limit of its movement within thehead. Theslidingmovementofthe block within the head is limited by a slot q in the bottom of the head and a pin q" on the block that projects into the slot. lVhen the head is moved rearward on the depression of its key K the rear end of the block engages a crossbar R carried by the rock-shaft arms R R, and moves such bar rearward, turning the segment-carrying rock-shaft R in a direction to wind the register-operating spring R, the spring Q being strong enough to do this. Then the limit of motion of the segment necessaryto cause the desired registration is reached and the bar R stops, the spring Q will yield, permitting the continuation of the rearward movement of the head. Although up to the time of the stoppage of the crossbar R an indicator-tablet is being raised by the action of the head Q on its elbow-lever T, yet such tablet is not thereby raised high enough to be locked in display position, and its elevation to a point where it can belocked is effected during the continuation of the movement of the head Q after the stoppage of the cross-bar R and during the yielding of the spring The bar R is stopped, as above described, by a stop U, consisting of a bar pivoted on a cross-shaft U, supported by the frame-plates II II, from which shaft the stop extends forward, with its free front end resting upon the rear raised end of the head Q when the latter is in its forward position. Then the head is moved rearward on the depression of its operating-key, the raised rear end thereof passes from beneath the front end of the stop and the latter drops into the path of and is engaged by and arrests orstops the rearward movement of the cross bar R Should a spring Q for any reason such as having become weakened or because of some unusual opposition by the registering mechanism due to gumming of parts or other accidental causes, prematurely yield before the 

